Finch Painting

We were moving out of our house which we were turning into a rental property. We solicited several bids for painting one room of the home plus general touch-up for dings & picture holes. Mr. Finch has the lowest bid at $410. He showed up promptly & was flexible when the tenants decided they didn't want the room repainted. I told home I would buy the paint he had purchased to redo the room as that wasn't fair to him to eat the cost. He rebid the job- including paint cost - at $320. He quickly set to work. I was extremely busy & couldn't supervise him at all. At early afternoon he came & told me he was done & needed his check. I didn't have one on me at the time so he agreed to stop by in a few hours & pick it up. That was fortunate because after he left I went to inspect his work. The spackling was so-so at best, I could have done a better job myself. He has totally skipped one room, he had spackled the wall holes, but had not returned to sand or paint the walls. In another room, besides the sub-par spackling job, the paint was not touched up thick enough and the white spackle was either showing through or had not been painted at all. When he returned his for his check, I pointed out the deficiencies & he willingly corrected them, however, I had hoped for someone to do a quality job without me breathing down their neck. For 6 hours worth of work, & using my paint to touch up, $320 was a nice payday! Mr. Finch is a nice guy, but you'll have to closely monitor him if you are going to give him a job.